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Willow

I recently changed jobs. I was working in the underwriting/issue/New business for a large Canadian insurance company (7yrs). I now work for the Federal Gov. Revenue Agency. In HR. I recruit, test and interview employees. It's all new to me as of 3 weeks ago!

Hawkeye

Retired from the Navy in 1996 after 21 years. Held a bunch of dead end jobs until the war department "requested" I find real employment. Restored WWII fighters and bombers for about 4 years. Finally landed a job in a research lab developing future technology for our war fighters with a large defense company.

Gordon

ShinAce

wrong thread

shack

george daniel wrote:

I'm the CEO of a 50 million dollar/year healthcare service.

Revenues are fine....making any money?

george daniel

,,, a little,,, so far we have been pretty fortunate,, not sure how much longer,, definately seeing an increase in uninsured and private pay,,but fortunately the volume has been on our side,,so far.

shack

george daniel wrote:

,,, a little,,, so far we have been pretty fortunate,, not sure how much longer,, definately seeing an increase in uninsured and private pay,,but fortunately the volume has been on our side,,so far.

I know what you mean. IF we make any money this year, it won't be much. Depends on if we will be able to dodge the bulk of the recession problems. Good thing we are well capitalized. Hopefully 2010 will be better.

obieone

Commercial/ industrial HVAC. Not immune to the recession either. Part time hours now.

BlueFox

Hawkeye wrote: »

Finally landed a job in a research lab developing future technology for our war fighters with a large defense company.

So, what is the current status of the invisible space plane? Did they get the hyper-sonic drive to be more reliable?

renowilliams

Hawkeye wrote: »

Retired from the Navy in 1996 after 21 years. Held a bunch of dead end jobs until the war department "requested" I find real employment. Restored WWII fighters and bombers for about 4 years. Finally landed a job in a research lab developing future technology for our war fighters with a large defense company.

Gordon

Very interesting Hawkeye. I was in the air force for 12 years and once worked on a restoration project restoring a Mosquito Bomber. My job was to do a bonding survey on the wings. Unfortuatly, a new Squadron CO took over and reclaimed the hanger space before we finished. We were pretty close to finishing. A big disappointment.

What type of aircraft did you work on?

F1nut

I drive a Formula One race car when I'm not sailing.

engtaz

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treitz3

I'm in a restorative services industry. I make buildings/dwellings look brand new even if they are 60 years old. One unit at a time. Commercial, residential, interior or exterior. I'm also in the graffiti removal business.

m00npie

treitz3 wrote: »

I'm also in the graffiti removal business.

You would have an infinite amount of work in NYC especially with the subways. Of course, you would have to join a Union :eek:

treitz3

Screw unions and screw cold weather. I have NOTHING but nice things to say about New York [especially the wildlife and parks, West Point, accents, pizza, women to mention just a few] but I have to be honest......I hate cold weather.

Graffiti is nationwide and it's growing. MS-13 alone keeps me busy, not to mention the 10,000 or so other gangs......

apphd

comfortablycurt wrote: »

........drill a small hole at roughly a 45 degree angle into the cambium layer of the tree, about 2-3 inches in depending on the size of the tree itself. Then you have to strap this nutrient/treatment pack around the trunk and insert a feeder tube into the hole that you drilled. The pack get's strapped down.....

Thanks Curt I really was curious, so I guess then yes it really is an injection more or less an IV.

MrNightly

engtaz wrote: »

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Do you sell Viagra?

I-SIG

hoosier21 wrote: »

how cool is it to find out Al Gore is a Polkie

Perhaps, but either way this spot is here because I (or someone like me) makes it possible.

Wes

fatchowmein

I'm a RIF test pilot disguised as a Systems Engineer/Administrator/Analyst in large enterprise data centers. If something blows up, it's our fault. If nothing blows up and it's too quiet, there's too many of us. :rolleyes:

Hawkeye

renowilliams wrote: »

What type of aircraft did you work on?

The guy I worked for had his own private air force. He is up to about 35 aircraft right now! I had the pleasure of working on, and this is just a short list:

AD4 SkyRaider
FG1 Corsair
Spitfire
Hurricane
Stearman
T28C

If you'd like to see the full line up, try this link.http://www.fighterfactory.com/

It was the best job I ever had. Did not pay much, but the opportunity to do this type of work was worth it for several years.

Gordon

suprafantx

Research and Technology lab.

jacob.simpson

Work as a Contractor in St. L with Big Eagle in Retail Category Division Merchandising Planograms (The way Beer is kept in shelves, Caves etc) And am really happy on the Contract extension till Dec.

cnh

It's pretty amazing to see the diversity of people on this site who are into audio. I would have never predicted such a thing. Perhaps a more interesting post would be...

Considering your avocation how, where, and what brought you into such a concern with audio and with Polk in particular. My own entry was coming from a musical family and my college years...but I suspect the diversity of the audio-calling is as great as what everyone does for a living here.

I have to also add that what we have above is probably mostly but not entirely accurate. And we have some amusement as usual.

cnh

BAD ASP

I own a commercial swimming pool construction company. We design and build pools, fountains, waterparks, health facilities.... We don't do residential pools.
Business is a little soft right now but we are contracted out to about the end of December.

audiobliss

Norm Apter wrote: »

I teach Chinese and East Asian history. I am currently in the middle of a one-year visiting position at Pepperdine University (which is in Malibu, for those of you not familiar with southern California) -- pretty sweet morning commute up the PCH from West L.A. (where I live). I'm still finishing my Ph.D. (writing my diss) in Modern Chinese History at UCLA and then I'll be looking for a permanent (tenure-track) job, which could put me anywhere in the U.S. Beggars can't be choosers...

We're on spring break this week...which explains why I'm still up at this hour of the night...I teach 8ams four days a week this semester:eek:

Very cool! I have a few friends who are studying at Pepperdine.

audiobliss

Hobbyguy wrote: »

Here is what I do...and this is what is coming
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Very interesting read. Thanks for posting!

audiobliss

I'm a college student working on a bachelors in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (as well as a second major in Vocational Ministry and a minor in Spanish) so I can sign my life away at a medical school and break my back working in a socialized medical field to pay back $250k in education loans.

Yes, I'm a very optimistic person.

comfortablycurt

cnh wrote: »

Considering your avocation how, where, and what brought you into such a concern with audio and with Polk in particular. My own entry was coming from a musical family and my college years...but I suspect the diversity of the audio-calling is as great as what everyone does for a living here.

I've always been a great lover of music. Everyone in my family is, so I just grew up around it. My dad is a huge Zeppelin fan, so I grew up listening to it a lot. My older brother followed the Grateful Dead around on tour for several years in the late 80's and early 90's, up until Jerry's untimely death...So the Dead have always been a big part of my life, and are basically my favorite band now.

My brother is also a guitar player, which inspired me to start playing guitar myself. I've been playing for about 8 years now, and it's one of my biggest passions in life. Music is really where it's at for me...it's the essence of life in my opinion.

I've always been into stereo equipment, but I've never really had any good equipment until recently. Not that my stereo's have ever been pieces of junk...they were better than all of my friends, but they weren't exactly high end equipment either. As far as getting into Polk, I just happened across them. I bought my Onkyo AVR about 6 months or so ago, and was looking for some new speakers to go with it. I looked around at several brands, including Klipsch, Infinity, DCM...and Polk. I went and listened to all of them, and the Polk's were what sounded best to me, so here I am.

I have a pair of Monitor 7A's now, I just bought a pair of Mini Monitors the other day, which I should be receiving in a couple weeks or so. I also have a deal for a set of RTi's set up, which I should be picking up about the middle of next month. Some SDA's will be coming along eventually too.:cool:

messiah

I'm in charge of things and stuff:D

mhardy6647

raconteur
In my spare time I make drugs.

W WALDECKER

I am a pipefitter/ mechanical foreman/Superintendant.I build welded piping systems from 1/2" dia to 48"dia pipe.we work for all of the major oil companies and we are never slow and have more work than we have people to do the work. In fact work kept me from attending Polkfest 2008 :mad: